Kelly's Directory 1902
Warleggon is a parish and village, on the Temple stream, 5
miles north-east from Bodmin Road station on the Great Western railway
and 6 east-by-north from Bodmin, in the South Eastern division of the
county, hundred and petty sessional division of West, Bodmin union and
county court district, rural deanery and arch-deaconry of Bodmin and
diocese of Truro. The church of St Bartholomew is an ancient building of
stone, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, south
porch and a western tower containing one bell: there are 150 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1540. The living is a rectory; net
yearly value £126, including 19 acres of Glebe, with residence, in the
gift of F. G. P. Remfry esq., and held since 1901 by the Rev. Carlton
Olive M. A., of Exeter College, Oxford. Here are Bible Christian and
Wesleyan chapels. Lord Vivian, who is lord of the manor, and Frederick
Ernest Remfry esq., are the chief landowners. The soil is peat and
clayey loam; the subsoil is part granite and part clay-slate. Then chief
crops are barley and oats, with some wheat. The area is 2,151 acres of
land and 6 of water; rateable value, £1,570; population in 1891 was 206.
Post Office, Mount – Samuel Reynolds, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive
through Bodmin at 10.15am; dispatched at 3.5pm. Postal orders are issued
here, but not paid. The nearest money order officeis at Bodmin &
telegraph office at St Neot, 3 miles distant.
A school board of 5 members was formed June 6, 1877; William Stephens,
Mount, clerk to the board.
Board School (mixed), built in 1880, at a cost of £480, for 60 children;
average attendance, 37.
Olive Rev. Carlton M.A. Rectory
Commercial
Bunt Petherick, farmer, Lower Thorn
Burlase Thomas, Soldiers’ Arms P.H. Mount
Carne John, agricultural implement maker, agent & repairer, stove maker
& general smith, Mount
Coppin Hugh, farmer, Little Bofindle
Cowls James, carpenter
Doney Charles, farmer, Carburrow
Jory John Charles, carpenter, Mount
Knight William Peter, shopkeeper, Mount
Lander Martin, farmer, Bofindle
Lawry Thomas, farmer, Treveddo
Menhinick Christopher, farmer, Dewey
Mutton Thomas, shoe maker, Calloways
Reynolds Samuel, Post Office, Mount
Riddle William & George, farmers, Trevorder
Runnalls Henry, farmer, Castle Dewey
Runnalls Robert, farmer, Well Town
Runnalls William, farmer, Woodah
Sach Robert, manager Treveddo Mining Co Ltd
Stephens William B., farmer, Mount
Treveddo Mining Co Ltd, (Robert Sach, manager)
Wherry John, farmer, Tor House
Wherry John Coppin, farmer, Higher Thorne
Wherry Thomas, farmer, POlventon
Williams William, farmer, Holroad
Worden William, farmer, Downhouse
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